Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test tubes, aerosporin proved many times more effective than streptomycin, weight for weight, against typhoid, dysentery, cholera, the plague, other intestinal infections. In mice, it worked against the whooping cough organism (which defies other antibiotics), typhoid, possibly against enteric fever...
...also worked in its first test on human beings-ten children, one month to 2½ years old, suffering from whooping cough. All showed definite improvement in the first 48 hours. (Two of the children later died, but neither death was due either to whooping cough or to aerosporin...
...Sixes Take Off. Douglas DC-6s, grounded by fires last November (TIME, Nov. 24), were test flown to see if the four major changes in the plane had eliminated the fire bugs. So far, the grounding has cost the three biggest domestic users of sixes (United, American and National airlines) an estimated $10,000,000. But the airlines still liked the plane. Of Douglas Aircraft Co.'s new orders for eleven DC-6s, six were from United, five from Delta...
...small stockholder in their companies and that he thought their salaries too high; they should be cut. The presidents had no way of knowing that Forbes Magazine had put Mr. Benson, a free-lance writer, up to his letter-sending. It wanted to make a sly test of corporate public relations...
Last week Forbes published the results. The two Charles E. Wilsons (no kin) who boss General Motors Corp. and General Electric Co. flunked the test, along with six other corporation presidents.* They did not answer Benson. But the rest all passed handsomely. Benson even got two to agree with him. Curtiss-Wright Corp.'s Guy W. Vaughan and Sinclair Oil Corp.'s Harry F. Sinclair reported that they had already cut their salaries. Republic Steel Corp.'s Charles M. White, who makes $200,000 a year, made no such concession. Said he: "I have no intention...